Werk #2311: windows agent: now replaces BOM (byte order marks) from local and plugin scripts

Component

Checks & agents

Title

windows agent: now replaces BOM (byte order marks) from local and plugin scripts

Date

Jun 23, 2015

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.2.7i2 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.7i2 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.7i2 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.7i2 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.7i2 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.7i2 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.7i2 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.7i2 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.7i2	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Some windows plugins recklessly reported byte order marks at the beginning of their output, which lead problems when the data was evaluated.

With this change byte order marks will be replaced by empty lines. Empty lines in the agent output are ignored, so there won't be any side effects.